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What if it were sold as a must-drink health food akin to kombucha or coconut water?

A Silicon Valley biotech company is trying to make breast milk the next hot health trend.

Sugarlogix, based in Berkeley, California, has plans to isolate the sugars in breast milk that make it so beneficial, and turn it into a product for kids and adults.

So no, they’re not asking you to suckle on your mum into your forties, but will instead be creating some kind of supplement or beverage that delivers all the health benefits of breast milk. Interesting.

Alongside acting as a trendy option for the wellness crowd, the product could also provide an option for mothers who are unable to produce milk for their child.

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‘We were interested in prebiotics and we realized that the best type of prebiotics exist in nature, and that’s in human breast milk,’ Kulika Chomvong, the CEO of Sugarlogix, told Gizmodo.

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Sugarlogix say they already have a deal planned to supply a baby formula company with the sugars they’ve taken from breast milk. After that all goes well, they’ll turn their sugars into a prebiotic pill adults could take every day.

‘This is the very first time adults can really harness the power of breast milk,’ says Kulika. ‘We wanted to find the very first food for the gut that we ever received as babies, and that’s breast milk.’

It all plays into a big topic that keeps coming up in the worlds of wellness right now – gut health.

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But it’s not clear what the benefits of consuming these breast milk sugars as an adult will actually be. Breast milk is complex, and its make-up differs from mother to mother. What if the wonders of breast milk are down to more than just an isolated sugar?

Sugarlogix believes that the sugars could increase healthy gut bacteria, which could mitigate symptoms of diabetes and irritable bowel syndrome.

Loads more research is needed before anyone can guarantee any benefits of breast milk for adults, and it’ll be a while before any breast milk pills come out on the market.

But rest assured: If you dream of the benefits of breast milk, there are people working to make them accessible well beyond infancy. One day semi-soon, breast milk pills could be something you pop each morning along with your multivitamin.